Manuscripts / Exposés

Before submitting your manuscript or exposé, please take a moment to read our submission guidelines:

• Please note that we will not respond to general and obviously wide-spread submissions.
• Please make sure (e.g. by checking our website) that your work fits in with the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing program.
• Please provide some information on yourself, particularly on your professional background and current activities.
• If at all possible, please do not send handwritten scores, rather use a suitable layout program (preferably Sibelius) and submit as a PDF document.
• In order to be able to carry out a proper evaluation, we need you to send the complete manuscript.
• Please abstain from sending only recordings.

Instrumentation

The instrumentation is indicated in figures and abbreviations following the usual order in a full score:

• Woodwinds: Flute(Piccolo).Oboe(English Horn).Clarinet(BassClarinet.Saxophone).Bassoon (Contrabassoon)
• Brass: Horn.Trumpet.Trombone.Tuba
• Kettledrums.Percussion
• Harp.Guitar
• Piano.Harpsichord.Celesta.Organ
• Strings

Abbreviations without brackets mean additional players: Picc.1. = 2 players
Abbreviations in brackets indicate either additional instruments: 1(Picc). = 1 player, but 2 instruments
or the number of the players: perc(4) = 4 percussionist

CD-ROMs

Some of our editions include a CD-ROM. If your device does not support CD-ROM anymore, we can provide you – upon presentation of the proof of purchase – with the contents in a zip file. In this case, please contact our customer service.